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April 2011 Archives
7:00 AM Thu, Apr 28, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat  Email
Above, hotels in downtown New Shoreham, Block Island (Journal photo by Kathy Borchers) * * * Another hotel on Block Island * * * Painting by Gretchen Dow Simpson used with pamphlet for 26th annual RIHPHC conference * *......
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1:33 PM Wed, Apr 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
The 26th annual conference of the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission convenes this weekend on Block Island. Block Island is beautiful. Block Island is worth preserving. Is there any more to discuss? You bet. Thursday's column aims......
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1:02 PM Sat, Apr 23, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Pictured above: An anonymous piece of, um, architecture by Frank "O!" Gehry An anonymous piece in the Wall Street Journal, about Frank Gehry, is here. I'm sure it must have been written by someone, but I found no byline......
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7:00 AM Thu, Apr 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Roger Scruton's essay discussed in my Thursday column "A scroll through ArchNewsNow.com" can (I hope) be read here. If not, it's because the Times has a paywall that, despite my having paid 1 pound for 24 hours' access, won't......
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6:00 AM Thu, Apr 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Above, computer image of the Shard (center) across the Thames from the Gherkin (left), in London; below, Roger Scruton; Jonathan Glancey; the Gherkin (right, Tower Bridge is at left); Museo Soumaya, by Fernando Romero, in Mexico City; slide......
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11:40 PM Tue, Apr 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
No surprise that they're ganging up on Roger Scruton, the architectural philosopher par excellence - and he philosophises about much else as well. He wrote for the London Times a perfectly sensible essay, well mannered, and so out comes modernist......
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10:05 PM Tue, Apr 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
If you liked the video of a trolley ride in San Francisco posted here about a year ago and on the Pro-Urb list today, you'll love this video from three years later, 1908, in Barcelona. You can hop on......
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7:00 AM Thu, Apr 14, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Above, the Ship Street Canal was proposed by Providence designer Paul Pawlowki in 1999 (drawing by John S. Baymiller); below, another rendering of the canal; Providence, showing relocated Route 195 (below) and (above) Route 195 before demolition (click......
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8:50 PM Tue, Apr 12, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Some issues squeezed out of last week's column on the Route 195 project will be scooped up this week. The possibility of reviving the Ship Street Canal, for one, proposed in 1999 by Providence designer Paul Pawlowski, tickles the......
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11:56 AM Mon, Apr 11, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
John Massengale posted to the TradArch List a link to a good and necessary sendup of modern art, and extraordinarily funny to boot. The piece, by Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist A. Barton Hinkle, can be read here, as reprinted in......
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4:51 PM Sat, Apr 09, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Can't drive far in downtown Providence this weekend without seeing backhoes, bulldozers and chainsaws chugging, pounding and mawing through their noisy, smoky chores. Work began recently to remove the segment of Route 195 that cuts through downtown. Very good......
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12:40 PM Sat, Apr 09, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
The above poster of Newport doors comes from Cliff Vanover, cartographer of Newport's Bellevue Avenue (and others) and now postographer of Newport's fine doorways. One hundred and forty-four doors, arrayed in eight files from top to bottom and 18......
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7:00 AM Thu, Apr 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Above, left: Route 195 before relocation; right, early development concept after relocation of 195 (From Draft Route 195 EIS, 1993). Below, Narragansett Hotel on Dorrance Street, with Opera House beyond; a photographic map of the Route 195 relocation......
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7:17 AM Wed, Apr 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustration: Not sure who this is or what stage of design is reflected, but the shot appeared on John Massengale's Veritas et Venustas blog in 2005, illustrating Andres Duany's thoughts reprinted after my intro below. * * * In......
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10:34 PM Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
There's so much to say about plans to redevelop the land opened up by the relocation of Route 195 through downtown Providence. An editorial written by an anonymous member of the Journal's editorial board addressed some of these issues,......
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7:50 AM Mon, Apr 04, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
This is from a brief address by James Howard Kunstler to open an event in Bologna in 2000. It is, alas, as appropriate today as in 2000. Perhaps (see previous blog) there is hope, but it is not robust.......
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8:13 PM Sun, Apr 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
And this is such an instance. A set of architectural principles has been enunciated following a meeting at the headquarters of the Art Workers Guild at Queen Square, in London. The principles make so much sense, and will put modernism......
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1:06 PM Sun, Apr 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Audun Engh, a Tradarch List member who is also among the founders of Europe's version of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America (newly renamed the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art), used the phrase "parasitic modernism" to......
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